Penny Mordaunt in the House of Commons - the govt is content to accept the Lord's amendments - "mother" is legally accurate and in line with recent case for. The intention and meaning of the bill. The word "woman" would have run into legal difficulties 🤨parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/02…
Crispin Blunt - Gender Identity Development Services under "well funded legal attack"

- does he mean the Keira Bell Case... well funded by women putting 30 quids in the hat.
A debate which came out of nowhere says Blunt.

Sitting behind the passion is the Heritage Foundation 🙄LGBAlliance, Donald Trump 🙄

Threats to women's sports "do not exist"
There is a principle about gender neutral language. Trans rights do not come at the expense of womens rights.

Women's rights must be protected where there is evidence... "in reality Trans womens pose no threat to women"
Christine Jardine - Gender neutral language more accurately reflects modern life ..."those who give birth" 🙄

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27 Feb
This is, in fact, a million miles from that.

If you counterprotest in the pathway of of an organised march you can expect to be moved on by police keeping the peace.

We want police to follow the rule of law.
One people who complained to my employer said that this video by FPFW which I had tweeted "reminded her of the Nazis" because of the colour scheme

And here is Omid carelessly slurring female academics as Nazis (he said he didn't mean it, it was just for bants and he hadn't actually read the article)
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25 Feb
#MOMAbill Lord True - The government has listened carefully and has heard the strength of feeling - gender neutral drafting does not require a single approach.

"Mother" and "expectant mother" is legal and acceptable to the government

parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/3c…
@LordPhilofBrum talking about the ability of women to talk clearly about sex where #sexmatters @SexMattersOrg !

Talking about what happened to @RosieBoycott was disgusting and the silence from her colleagues
Those who speak up for women's rights and clear language are criticised for transphobes it is #chilling

If you erase women from the language and law how is that inclusive?
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21 Feb
15 organisations launch the #sexandthecensus campaign today to send a message to the ONS that its job is to collect data accurately from everyone - sex matters.

#sexinthecensus #census2021

sexinthecensus.org
Its not a boycott... it is a coordinated effort to get as many people as possible to send a message to the ONS on census night

- request a paper copy of the census
- attach the letter
- request a response

sexinthecensus.org/take-action/
Here is the press release sexinthecensus.org/wp-content/upl…

And detailed Q&A

sexinthecensus.org/f-a-q/
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20 Feb
There was an excellent meeting in the House of Lords in 2019 about child transition - You can read the talks by Richard Byng, Marcus Evans, Michael Laidlaw & Stephanie Davies Arai

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The meeting was well attended by concerned doctors, researchers, activists.

Apart from Lord Moonie who hosted, only politicians were Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson & David Davies MP

I sat next to James Caspian whose research on detransition was shut down

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The Keira Bell case and GIDS CQC inspection has confirmed these concerns

transparencyproject.org.uk/bell-v-tavisto…
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19 Feb
. @legalfeminist did a good write up of @BluskyeAllison case against Garden Court and Stonewall and what came out in the prehearing.

legalfeminist.org.uk/2021/02/15/do-…
Stonewall staff and trans advisory group sent emails characterised by the judge as a “threat” of reputational damage to Garden Court, including that for Garden Court to continue to support Allison “puts us in a difficult position with yourselves”
We trust you will “would do what is right and stand in solidarity with trans people” and take disciplinary action against Allison or, as summarised by her barrister, face the reputational consequences.
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18 Feb
Interesting on censuses, biological data, social norms and shame ....

One of the questions in the 1971 census is the number of children a woman has had

But it only asked about children born in marriage
Presumably at the time it was felt to be too sensitive to ask about children born outside of marriage - who might have been adopted, brought up within the wider family etc... certainly not something to talk about on the doorstep.
Transsexuality used to be a bit like this - something shameful, not to be talked about, with the idea that a person would want to live 'in stealth'.

But social norms - on children borne outside of wedlock, and gender non-conformity change
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